What: A 2-day workshop intended for all teams working on localization, documentation and development of Indian versions of Linux
When: 16, 17 May, 10am to 6pm
Where: Red Hat Pune, 6th Floor, East Wing Marisoft-III, Marigold Premises, Kalyaninagar, Pune
Registration and Fees: No idea. But, in keeping with the “free” and “open source” philosophy of linux, I would be surprised if the event isn’t free and open for all to attend
Link: click
Details:
A meeting of the various teams associated with IndLinux will be held at the offices of Red Hat Inc., Pune. Broad objectives of the meeting are to have all teams touch base with one another, and work together to chalk out a roadmap for work over the next year. There will be three tracks over the two days of the meeting, with two of these always running in parallel: (a) Localisation track, (b) Documentation track, and (c) Code development track. Specific objectives, and where possible, immediate deliverables for the various components of each track will be set before the meeting.
Schedule:
Day I: 16th May, 2009
Localisation track |
Development track |
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10:00-11:00 |
Introduction, general queries and concerns |
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11:00-11:40 |
Bengali: Runa Bhattacharjee |
11:00-13:00 |
Locales, and related work: Rahul Bhalerao, Pravin Satpute, Parag Nemade |
11:40-12:20
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Chhatishgarhi: Ravishankar |
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12:20-13:00 |
Gujarati: Kartik, Shweta Kothari |
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13:00-14:00 |
LUNCH |
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14:00-15:00 |
FUEL project: Rajesh Ranjan |
14:00-17:00 |
OCR: Tesseract Debayan |
15:00-15:20 |
Assamese: Amitakhya Phukan |
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15:20-16:00 |
Hindi: Rajesh Ranjan, Ravishankar, Karunakar, Ravikant |
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16:00-16:40 |
Kannada: Shankar Prasad |
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16:40-17:20 |
Maithili: Sangeeta Kumari, Rajesh Ranjan |
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17:20-18:00 |
Malayalam: Santhosh Thottingal |
17:00-18:00 |
OCR: Simple approach: Gora, Shantanu, Nandeep |
Day II: 17th May, 2009
Localisation/documentation track |
Development track |
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10:00-10:40 |
Marathi: Sandeep Shedmake |
10:00-13:00 |
Dictionaries: (a) Finish phonetic rules for aspell: Gora (b) Phonetic rules for Hunspell: Santhosh (c) Stardict dictionaries: Karunakar |
10:40-11:20 |
Oriya: Manoj Giri |
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11:20-12:00 |
Punjabi: Jaswinder Singh |
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12:00-13:00 |
Translation quality assurance: Runa Bhattacharjee |
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13:00-14:00 |
LUNCH |
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14:00-14:40 |
Tamil: Sri Ramadoss M, I Felix |
14:00-15:30 |
Font converters: Gora, Shantanu, Nandeep, including Hindi work from Google groups. |
14:40-15:20 |
Telugu: Krishnababu |
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15:20-17:00 |
Round table on localisation: All |
15.30-17:00 |
Other development work |
17:00-18:00 |
Discussion on emphasising documentation |